Gil / Steve, Forgive me for interrupting....
University IT programs ??. If one needed brain surgery ... would that person settle for a surgeon (??) that learnt everything using JAVA simulations ??. No ?? why not ?? ... and, is that not what is being done in the so called 'IT' field today ?? and at a very cheap cost. Ever wonder whose pockets are being lined with the supposed 'savings' a company makes by pushing out knowledgeable people ?. Think about the last few years and how companies have 'outsourced' to non-US places ??. Many places outside the US that do not have the funds or the ability to teach / train people on the mainframes, find it easy to get 'one' PC and have a hundred 'trainees'. By the by ... has anyone tried to call 'tech support' to these 'outsourced' countries ?? .. Was it enjoyable ??. That said, is it any wonder that the world insists on adapting what we know to be unstable software, onto the mainframe ??. We've all become very familiar with the 'blue screen of death' ... well .. if things go the way they are at this point in time, we'll soon be seeing it on the mainframe environment too. Kind Regards Jim Thomas 617-233-4130 (mobile) 636-294-1014 (res) [email protected] (Email) -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Steve Comstock Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2011 3:09 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: An upbeat story On 6/14/2011 2:04 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 13:17:57 -0600, Steve Comstock wrote: > >> On 6/14/2011 1:06 PM, Frank Swarbrick wrote: >>> >>> Do non-IT people make better COBOL programmers? Why might that be? >> >> Well, the rationale is, I think, that students in university IT >> programs today will only have seen Windows / Unix / Linux and >> they probably have a pre-disposition against the mainframe. >> > Which paraphrases to, "Having no point of reference, they > don't know any better." > > -- gil Well, maybe. Or, "they start out with minimal prejudices" or "they don't have to unlearn habits that don't work" or ... :-) -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your people is an excellent investment * Try our new tool for calculating your Return On Investment for training dollars at http://www.trainersfriend.com/ROI/roi.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1382 / Virus Database: 1513/3703 - Release Date: 06/14/11 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
